Ocular biometry and refraction in Mongolian adults

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 776-783

  Wickremasinghe, Sanjeewa ^a   Foster, Paul J ^a,b   Uranchimeg, Davaatseren ^c   Lee, Pak Sang ^b   Devereux, Joe G ^a   Alsbirk, Poul Helge ^d   Machin, David ^e   Johnson, Gordon J ^b   Baasanhu, Jamyanjav ^c  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

^d HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASTIGMATISM; AUTOREFRACTION; BIOMETRY; CORNEA POWER; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; EYE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE BIOMETRY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; MONGOLIAN; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOLOGY; LENS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 1542427257     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0456     Document Type: Article

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